Roman

Gender: Masculine
Origin: Latin
Meaning “Roman.”
Eng Masc. (ROH-men) Eng Fem. (roh-MANE); Fre Masc. (hroh-MAHn); Fre Fem. (hroh-MEHN); Pol (ROH-mahn)

The name’s meaning is clear from its very first utterance, most renowned in the State’s through Polish director and film maker, Roman Polanski, it was the name of a Christian martyr who died under Diocletian.

In recent years, the name has had a peak in popularity, it currently ranks in as the 157th most popular male name in the United States (2011), and seems to be rising.

His rankings in other countries are as follows:

• # 36 (Romain, Belgium, 2008)
• # 39 (Romain, France, 2010)
• # 228 (Roman, France, 2010)
• # 494 (Netherlands, 2011)

Its designated name-days are: February 23 (Slovakia); February 28/29 (Poland), May 28 (Estonia), August 9 (Czech Republic/Poland), October 6/23 (Poland), November 18 (Poland).

Roman is used in Czech, Estonian, German, Polish, Slovakian and Slovenian.

Other forms of the name are:

• Roman Роман (Croatian/English/German/Norwegian/Polish/Romansch/Russian/Slovak/Slovene/Swedish/Ukrainian)
• Romain (French)
• Romanos (Greek)
• Román (Hungarian/Spanish)
• Romano (Italian)
• Romanello/Romanino (Italian: obscure)
• Romanus (Latin)
• Romanas (Lithuanian)
• Reman (Poitvin)
• Romans (Poitvin)
• Rouman (Poivin)

In Polish, Romek is the diminutive form.

Feminine forms are:

• Romana (Croatian/Czech/Italian/Lithuanian/Polish/Slovak/Slovene)
• Romaine (English/French)
• Romane (French)
• Romána (Hungarian)
• Romanella (Italian)
• Romanina (Italian)
• Romanita (Italian/Spanish)
• Romina (Italian/Spanish)
• Romanela (Polish: very obscure)